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Anita added a comment to your profile on Open Anthropology Cooperative:

Hello.
My Name is anita. I was impressed when i saw your profile openanthcoop.ning.com
and i will like you to email me back to my inbox so that i can send you my picture for you to know who i am.i be...

I can't figure out how that one got through, but it's definitely a bot that's also been spamming other Ning networks. I'm reporting it to Ning now. Normally, the Admins would simply ban this member, but they are not appearing in the list of registered users.

With spam that is not visible to us on the main site, it's especially important that it gets reported so that we can take appropriate action. As Keith mentions, we usually suspend spammers as soon as we are aware of them, including pre-empting problems by screening profiles and other content for suspicious activity.

If you're a member of a Ning Network and someone sends you spam, the first thing to do is to block that person from sending you messages.

At the bottom of your email message, you will see "To control which emails you receive on NING NETWORK NAME, click here." Click on the link and you will be taken to the Opt-Out page. You can choose what emails you would like to opt-out of if you are a member of the Ning Network, block all emails from the sender, or stop receiving all emails from the Ning Network.

Just be careful which emails you disable because you may then not be kept up to date with forum and group posts/updates you have already subscribed to.

Thanks for letting us know about this.

Anna Horolets said:

Dear Keith, I received something like that at my e-mail address, it is fake, since there is no comment on my account. This is the second time I got spam of this sort pretending to be from Co-operative. anita added a comment to your profile on Open Anthropology CooperativeMonday, 1 March, 2010 18:16From Open Anthropology Cooperative Mon Mar 1 17:16:01 2010 X-Apparently-To: labusia@yahoo.com via 67.195.8.154; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:16:07 -0800 Return-Path:

Hi,
I also got a similar message from one Linda: linda114love@yahoo.com.ph
Please, administrators take care of this!
Sabine

Francine Barone said:

Hi Anna,

I can't figure out how that one got through, but it's definitely a bot that's also been spamming other Ning networks. I'm reporting it to Ning now. Normally, the Admins would simply ban this member, but they are not appearing in the list of registered users.

With spam that is not visible to us on the main site, it's especially important that it gets reported so that we can take appropriate action. As Keith mentions, we usually suspend spammers as soon as we are aware of them, including pre-empting problems by screening profiles and other content for suspicious activity.

If you're a member of a Ning Network and someone sends you spam, the first thing to do is to block that person from sending you messages.

At the bottom of your email message, you will see "To control which emails you receive on NING NETWORK NAME, click here." Click on the link and you will be taken to the Opt-Out page. You can choose what emails you would like to opt-out of if you are a member of the Ning Network, block all emails from the sender, or stop receiving all emails from the Ning Network.

Just be careful which emails you disable because you may then not be kept up to date with forum and group posts/updates you have already subscribed to.

Thanks for letting us know about this.

Anna Horolets said:

Dear Keith, I received something like that at my e-mail address, it is fake, since there is no comment on my account. This is the second time I got spam of this sort pretending to be from Co-operative. anita added a comment to your profile on Open Anthropology CooperativeMonday, 1 March, 2010 18:16From Open Anthropology Cooperative Mon Mar 1 17:16:01 2010 X-Apparently-To: labusia@yahoo.com via 67.195.8.154; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:16:07 -0800 Return-Path:

The admins banned multiple instances of spam by this person yesterday within (I hope) a few minutes of their first spam message. It may take a day or so to purge the spam from the site.

Sabine Hess said:

Hi, I also got a similar message from one Linda: linda114love@yahoo.com.ph Please, administrators take care of this!
Sabine

Francine Barone said:

Hi Anna,

I can't figure out how that one got through, but it's definitely a bot that's also been spamming other Ning networks. I'm reporting it to Ning now. Normally, the Admins would simply ban this member, but they are not appearing in the list of registered users.
With spam that is not visible to us on the main site, it's especially important that it gets reported so that we can take appropriate action. As Keith mentions, we usually suspend spammers as soon as we are aware of them, including pre-empting problems by screening profiles and other content for suspicious activity.

If you're a member of a Ning Network and someone sends you spam, the first thing to do is to block that person from sending you messages.

At the bottom of your email message, you will see "To control which emails you receive on NING NETWORK NAME, click here." Click on the link and you will be taken to the Opt-Out page. You can choose what emails you would like to opt-out of if you are a member of the Ning Network, block all emails from the sender, or stop receiving all emails from the Ning Network.

Just be careful which emails you disable because you may then not be kept up to date with forum and group posts/updates you have already subscribed to.

Thanks for letting us know about this.

Anna Horolets said:

Dear Keith, I received something like that at my e-mail address, it is fake, since there is no comment on my account. This is the second time I got spam of this sort pretending to be from Co-operative. anita added a comment to your profile on Open Anthropology CooperativeMonday, 1 March, 2010 18:16From Open Anthropology Cooperative Mon Mar 1 17:16:01 2010 X-Apparently-To: labusia@yahoo.com via 67.195.8.154; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:16:07 -0800 Return-Path: